@proceedings {1573, title = {"A bit of code": How the Stack Overflow Community Creates Quality Postings}, year = {2014}, month = {01/2014}, pages = {1425-1434}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, abstract = {The Stack Overflow web site is an online community where programmers can ask and answer one another{\textquoteright}s questions, earning points and badges. The site offers guidance in the form of a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), beginning with "What kind of questions can I ask here?" The answer explains that "the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of source code in them". This paper explores the role of source code and non-source code text on Stack Overflow in both questions and answers. The primary contribution of this paper is to provide a more detailed understanding of whether the presence of source code (and how much) actually will produce the "best" Stack Overflow questions or answers. A second contribution of this paper is to determine how the non-code portions of the text might also contribute the "best" Stack Overflow postings. }, keywords = {COLLABORATION, collaborative development, data mining, developer network, knowledge collaboration, open content, text mining}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.185}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/hicssSMFinalWatermark.pdf}, author = {Squire, Megan and Funkhouser, Christian} }